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A tough day on the river today, it was at a good level but very clear, 1x rig bag lost after rolling in the river!

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Quite a tough day on the river today, it was at a good level but the clear water didn’t help, but 6 barbel of average stamp and 3 chub about 5lb made for a good days fishing, most taken on meat.

6 Barbel, 15 Chub

First blank on this beat , which was surprising considering the ideal conditions. Saw one salmon move towards the evening. Plenty of bird life to watch going about their business including 3 white (greater?) egrets, red kites & several flocks of starlings heading to roost at 100 mph. Very peaceful with no canoes at all & no background noise from the local wood chipper. Might have to try a change of tactics next outing.

Beautiful little beat. Took a while to suss out all the swims after getting into a discussion with an angler who was fishing in the private wooded section.

Anyway, had a small barbel 4.5lb in size at about 11am then biteless for hours despite trying moving and static baits. Picked a likely looking swim for last couple of hours and had a chub on meat about 4lb. The hole I grabbed Mr Chevin from turned out to have an enormous snag in it which snapped me off.

Retackled and recast. Nice hard fighting barbel then ran straight into snag and broke me off. Next chuck had a 5.5lb barbel on the bank. Just before last light had the best fish of the day, a fish which felt weighty beyond it's apparent size. Weighed in at 8lb 6oz, beautiful.

That was it.

Will be back, a gorgeous setting as almost every Wye beat is. Cattle were frisky and very 'friendly'. Got so close they licked my jacket and unhooking mat. They don't worry me as I'm familiar with them but be careful not to leave tackle like your rods on the deck because these little blighters don't care where they walk.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Lost 1 barbel

river at 1.2 and falling - visibility approx 2.5' on virtually last cast of the day at top of triangles, hooked a fish on an ally's shrimp. 33 inches and very deep fish. perfect end to the season.

1 Salmon

Nice day on a lovely stretch of river. Fished feeder and pellet most of the day with barbel coming from the middle section early afternoon. Barbel were also found from the croy but none landed. A decent choice of swims.

3 Barbel

3 Trout

nil return bar trout

6 Trout

Excellent morning session, slowed down about 11'ish so departed just after midday.

5 Trout